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I've been depressed many times in my life. But under it all I'm an optimist.

Janet Fitch

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Janet Fitch
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: November 9
Author
Journalist
Novelist
University Teacher
Writer
LA
California
Janet Elizabeth Fitch
Optimist
Depressed
Times
Many
Life

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The cake had a trick candle that wouldn't go out, so I didn't get my wish. Which was just that it would always be like this, that my life could be a party just for me.
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Don't hoard the past. Don't cherish anything. Burn it. The artist is the phoenix who burns to emerge.
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echo, the death of a sound that had nowhere to go but to come back.
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The nearest I'd come to feeling anything like God was the plan blue cloudless sky and a certain silence, but how do you pray to that?
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My house is modern, but I like my writing room to be old fashioned. I write on a little wooden secretary desk.
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Once you get below the floor of our personal identities, we're all connected. Perhaps that's why we can move into others' lives.
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Remember it all, every insult, every tear. Tattoo it on the inside of your mind. In life, knowledge of poisons is essential. I've told you, nobody becomes an artist unless they have to.
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We read so that we can be moved by a new way of looking at things.
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Death like a lover, caressing him, promising him peace, running its fingers through his hair, its tongue in his ear. She put her own two fingers in her mouth. Im so sorry. And pulled the trigger
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Whenever she turned her steep focus to me, I felt the warmth that flowers must feel when they bloom through the snow, under the first concentrated rays of the sun.
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Pick a better verb. Most people use twenty verbs to describe everything from a run in their stocking to the explosion of an A-bomb.
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Do you ever want to go home?' I asked Paul. He brushed an ash from my face. 'It's the century of the displaced person,' he said. 'You can never go home.
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At every moment, each instrument knew what to play. Its little bit. But none could see the whole thing like this, all at once, only its own part. Just like life. Each person was like a line of music, but nobody knew what the symphony sounded like. Only the conductor had the whole score.
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here, here is my dark world. you carry it for a change. im out
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I felt like an undeveloped photograph that he was printing, my image rising to the surface under his gaze.
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I wondered where he was now whether I would ever hear him again. Whether someone would love him, someday show him what beauty mean't.
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She laughed so easily when she was happy. But also when she was sad.
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I wish my life could be like that, knotted up so that even if something broke, the whole thing wouldn't come apart.
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One can bear anything. The pain we cannot bear will kill us outright.
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But I knew one more thing. That people w ho denied who they were or where they had been were in the greatest danger.
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